What I meant is this (quote from your blog)



Methanol burns "too easily, too quickly" , so mixing it with something that burns "not so well" may give us a fuel that is just right (similar to ethanol).

I would have tested the theory myself but in my neck of the woods ALL stoves around here are gas stoves. Esbit and alcohol stoves are never used by local campers. So, alcohol (methanol, denatured alcohol ..etc.) is non existant as a fuel in the camper market. I really don't know where to find them. Even gasoline additives ( HEET) does not exist here, and we have different brands which I may investigate.

Now, I know, you will ask ( if you can't get alcohol , why are you asking about it and how do you plan to use it ??)

OK. first, I am a prepper , not a routine type of camper. So, my stove needs may differ from the public. Second, around my work I found small quantities of methanol , iso propanol, denatured alcohol ..etc. And I plan to make a homemade alcohol stove and keep it for emergency use only if I had to bug-in the office due to bad weather or other problems, and power was out.. At the same time , I cannot use these in non-survival situation because the bilding is a no-smoking zone.

In the market , we have barbeque lighter fluid ..etc. but they are smoky and sooty , so they are definitely not methanol or denatured alcohol, maybe isopropanol or such.